- an immersing or being immersed
- baptism by immersing
- Now Rare, Astron. occultation or eclipse
Origin of immersion
Ecclesiastical Late Latin immersio
noun
- An example of immersion is when someone is baptized by being completely dunked under water.
- An example of immersion is when you become completely absorbed in a book and don't look up from reading or pay attention to anything else.
- An example of immersion is when you want to learn Spanish and you go to a special school for a month where only Spanish is spoken.
Immersion is defined as covering or submerging in something.
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immersion
noun
- a. The act or an instance of immersing.b. The condition of being immersed.
- Baptism performed by totally submerging a person in water.
- Astronomy The obscuring of a celestial body by another or by the shadow of another.
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Noun
(plural immersions)
- the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed
- the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism
- (UK, Ireland, informal) an immersion heater
- (mathematics) a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding
- (astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; opposed to emersion.
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Sentence Examples
- Mark Lucar, who was baptized by immersion in London.
- After the first few days of immersion the stalks are examined daily to test the progress of the retting.
- Most remarkable is the presence of a number of beetles along the seashore between tide-marks, where, sheltered in some secure nook, they undergo immersion twice daily, and have their active life confined to the few hours of the low ebb.
- In the summer of 1864 a sermon which he preached and printed on Baptismal Regeneration (a doctrine which he strenuously repudiated, maintaining that immersion was only an outward and visible sign of the inward conversion) led to a difference with the bulk of the Evangelical party, both Nonconformist and Anglican.
- The metal, having first been uniformly tempered glasshard, should be annealed in steam at loo° C. for twenty or thirty hours; it should then be magnetized to saturation, and finally " aged " by a second immersion in steam for about five hours.
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